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Happy New Year! On to 2023

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  Gregg Chadwick New York Stories (Five Minutes to Midnight) 30"x 40" oil on linen  Happy New Year! 明けましておめでとうございます Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu In my painting "New York Stories" it’s five minutes to midnight. Waiting for 2022 to move into 2023 like the hands of a clock spinning into the next hour, figures move around the iconic Grand Central clock like foxes huddling beneath a tree in Andō Hiroshige's "New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji" It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. I’m listening to a recording of a 10,000-member choir in Japan singing “Ode to Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Enthusiasm for Beethoven is particularly strong in Japan. Every year in December, singers gather in a concert hall in Osaka to sing the final chorus from Beethoven's Ninth. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990 Again , my thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Yea...

The Arts Can Bring Us Together

"One of the ways America will heal is through the arts." - Nancy Pelosi #cnntownhall @TeamPelosi — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 6, 2019 "The great instrument of moral good is the imagination". - Percy Shelley Quoted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi at #CNNtownhall @TeamPelosi https://t.co/y0ojIXJKma — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 6, 2019 This moment was made for Nancy Pelosi https://t.co/OsUXbU3JkS — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) December 6, 2019

Wonderful Arts Management Opportunity in Santa Monica

Wonderful Arts Opportunity: RFP -  #SantaMonicaAirport Art Studios Programming https://t.co/e7wYJG9d8I https://t.co/UXezniFEa0 #art https://t.co/d5VTEo4A7g — Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) August 17, 2018 New Arts Opportunity: RFP - Santa Monica Airport Art Studios Programming More at:  1.  http://www.californiabids.com/bid-opportunities/2018/08/14/8843531-RFP--Airport-Art-Studios-Programming.html 2.   RFP--Airport-Art-Studios-Programming 3.Santa Monica  Airport-Art-Studios-Planning

Happy New Year 2017 and Some of the Best Things that Happened in 2016

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by Gregg Chadwick Happy New Year 2017! It’s raining this New Year’s Eve in Santa Monica. The haunting voice of Gil Scott-Heron singing  Winter In America  fills our living room. My thoughts trace a circuit from this moment back to an earlier New Year in Japan as 1989 rolled into 1990. I was in Tokyo following the spirit and artworks of Ando Hiroshige. That winter in Japan, I clutched a large volume by Henry D. Smith II and Amy G. Poster on Hiroshige’s  One Hundred Famous Views of Edo   and trekked on rail, foot and car across the historic core of what was Edo era Tokyo. Sponsored by the Nippon Seiyu-Kai's 30th Anniversary Award, I endeavored to create a series of new paintings inspired by Hiroshige’s woodcuts. Time, place, memory, mystery and lore all mixed in my artworks. Gregg Chadwick Passing View of Shohei Bridge  30"x24" oil on linen 1990  Today, on the Brooklyn museum’s Tumblr page, Alison Baldassano posted a phot...